Quantum algorithms for quantum chemistry and quantum materials science

Understand

As we begin to reach the limits of classical computing, quantum computing has emerged as a technology that has captured the imagination of the scientific world.

• While for many years, the ability to execute quantum algorithms was only a theoretical possibility, recent advances in hardware mean that quantum computing devices now exist that can carry out quantum computation on a limited scale.
• Thus it is now a real possibility, and of central importance at this time, to assess the potential impact of quantum computers on real problems of interest.
• One of the earliest and most compelling applications for quantum computers is Feynman's idea of simulating quantum systems with many degrees of freedom.